Stars showing in moon photos

Following my earlier post, I've found a web site that I use to host photos.

See below for the scan of the colour transparancy of Aldrin next to the
flag, with several stars showing in the background.
http://img210.echo.cx/my.php?image=img1089sx.jpg

The image below is the original before enhancement. If you pull this down
and increase the fill light, the stars should show.

http://img147.echo.cx/my.php?image=img1098vz.jpg

Technical information.

This photo was taken from a 1969 colour 35mm transparancy slides (positive),
distributed by Nasa following the moon landings. These slides were purchased
by my parents at the time as a momento of the moon landing. I scanned using
an Epson 4990 Photo scanner (4.0 DMAX), with all digital correction and
enhancement disabled. The photo was saved as . JPG with at maximum quality
(compression at 1 out of 100). I scanned at an optical resolution of 3200
DPI, however the uploaded .JPG was resized to a maximum 2048 pixels in order
to fit the 1MB limit.

The link below shows a close up of the stars at full resolution.
http://img13.echo.cx/my.php?image=mooncloseup3qx.jpg


Regards,
Tim

In message , Tim Epstein
writes
Following my earlier post, I've found a web site that I use to host photos.

See below for the scan of the colour transparancy of Aldrin next to the
flag, with several stars showing in the background.
http://img210.echo.cx/my.php?image=img1089sx.jpg

The image below is the original before enhancement. If you pull this down
and increase the fill light, the stars should show.

http://img147.echo.cx/my.php?image=img1098vz.jpg

Technical information.

This photo was taken from a 1969 colour 35mm transparancy slides (positive),
distributed by Nasa following the moon landings. These slides were purchased
by my parents at the time as a momento of the moon landing. I scanned using
an Epson 4990 Photo scanner (4.0 DMAX), with all digital correction and
enhancement disabled. The photo was saved as . JPG with at maximum quality
(compression at 1 out of 100). I scanned at an optical resolution of 3200
DPI, however the uploaded .JPG was resized to a maximum 2048 pixels in order
to fit the 1MB limit.

The link below shows a close up of the stars at full resolution.
http://img13.echo.cx/my.php?image=mooncloseup3qx.jpg


Sadly, I suspect that the "stars" are just flaws in the slide. Your
picture is a reproduction of AS11-40-5874
http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/.../html/as11_40_
5874.html, and while the high res image has its own flaws I just don't
see the stars that appear in yours.
There's an even better version at
http://grin.hq.nasa.gov/IMAGES/LARGE/GPN-2001-000012.jpg.
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Thanks for the link. That NASA image really makes mine look bad!

I'm embarrassed now, though I don't think the "stars" in my scan are flaws
on the slide - the colour and slight lack of focus make me doubt that.

Regards,
Tim



"Jonathan Silverlight" wrote
in message ...
In message , Tim Epstein
writes
Following my earlier post, I've found a web site that I use to host
photos.

See below for the scan of the colour transparancy of Aldrin next to the
flag, with several stars showing in the background.
http://img210.echo.cx/my.php?image=img1089sx.jpg

The image below is the original before enhancement. If you pull this down
and increase the fill light, the stars should show.

http://img147.echo.cx/my.php?image=img1098vz.jpg

Technical information.

This photo was taken from a 1969 colour 35mm transparancy slides
(positive),
distributed by Nasa following the moon landings. These slides were
purchased
by my parents at the time as a momento of the moon landing. I scanned
using
an Epson 4990 Photo scanner (4.0 DMAX), with all digital correction and
enhancement disabled. The photo was saved as . JPG with at maximum quality
(compression at 1 out of 100). I scanned at an optical resolution of 3200
DPI, however the uploaded .JPG was resized to a maximum 2048 pixels in
order
to fit the 1MB limit.

The link below shows a close up of the stars at full resolution.
http://img13.echo.cx/my.php?image=mooncloseup3qx.jpg


Sadly, I suspect that the "stars" are just flaws in the slide. Your
picture is a reproduction of AS11-40-5874
http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/.../html/as11_40_
5874.html, and while the high res image has its own flaws I just don't
see the stars that appear in yours.
There's an even better version at
http://grin.hq.nasa.gov/IMAGES/LARGE/GPN-2001-000012.jpg.
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"Jonathan Silverlight" wrote
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Sadly, I suspect that the "stars" are just flaws in the slide. Your
picture is a reproduction of AS11-40-5874
http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/.../html/as11_40_
5874.html, and while the high res image has its own flaws I just don't
see the stars that appear in yours.
There's an even better version at
http://grin.hq.nasa.gov/IMAGES/LARGE/GPN-2001-000012.jpg.
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Thanks again for the link. I downloaded the last image above from NASA and
increased the fill light in the same way as my scan. The "stars" appear to
match up. This is especially true of the two reasonably bright points just
to left of the astronaut's face, and the dark blue spot behind his back.

See below for the enhancement of the NASA image.
http://img17.echo.cx/my.php?image=hires6ry.jpg


However, I agree that I should reserve judgement. These may well be
artifacts or imperfections. I certainly respect the fact that the NASA image
is far superior in quality to my scan. I'll leave it to the viewers to form
their own opinions.

Tim

Without much trouble one can identify stars that recorded better off
than within your selection. Somewhere I've copied a few and shared
those with no respect from the 'apollohoax' teams danage-control spooks
as they stalked and bashed topics and authors that do not 100% agree
with their NASA bible.

BTW; Why is SMART-1 still broken?
~

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